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LEAD SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED-MAY 20, 1908.

Patented May 28, 1912.

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LEAD SEAL.

Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed May 20, 1908. Serial No. 433,914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OAMILLO SIsMONDI, lawyer, residing in Turin, Italy,have invented certain new and useful Improve me-nts in Lead Seals, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a lead seal to holdthe ends of a wire or cord which closes the mouth of a sack or similardevice and in which there is no danger of sliding of the wire or cordafter the compression of the seal. This result is obtained withoutmaking more difficult the manufacture of the seals actually employed andthe present seal may be muchmore easily applied than those now in commonuse so that a loss of time is avoided.

In the drawings,Figure 1 shows a sectional view of a lead seal with thewire or cord; Fig. 2 shows the seal applied to a sack and before itscompression; Fig. 8 shows the seal applied to a sack and compressedgFig.4: shows the seal applied to a sack provided with a plate bearing anaddress; Fig. 5 is a face view of the tag or address plate.

The seal 1 which may however assume any suitable form is stronglyattached to the end 2 of a wire or cord by means of a knot 3 which isformed on the end of the wire and then embedded in the seal so that itis impossible to pull the end of the wire out of the seal. The sealisprovided with two non-communicating passages at right angles to eachother, a and 5, each having a cylindrical form and the passage 4 beingin the rear of the passage 5 and separated therefrom by a wall of metalas is indicated by its showing in dotted lines. The hole 5 however hastwo different diameters. The wire 6 enters the hole 4 then the hole 5 atthe inner smaller end of the hole. The wire passes around the mouth ofthe sack to be sealed so that on pulling the ends of the wire the sealcomes very near to the sack. Then a knot 7 is made in the wire 6 verynear the seal 1, then, pulling therseal outward, the

knot 7 enters the outer larger end of the hole 5, then the seal iscompressed and thus the outer end of the wire 6 is also pressed in theseal in a strong manner so as to grip the knot 7 To increase theadherence of V the lead sealto the wire it may be useful to provide theholes 4 and 5 with two metallic coils 8 which upon compressing the sealenter the lead and so prevent any sliding of the wire or cord. Beforethe wire is disposed around the mouth of the sack it can be entered inthe hole 9 of the plate 10' bearing the address or any other indication,thus obtaining the result that the plate cannot be taken away because ofthe seal 1 being larger than the hole 9.

While I have shown in detail one form of my invention, I do not wish tobe limited thereto, as various changes can be made therein withoutdeparting from the invention.

What I claim is r 1. A metal seal having one end of a flexible memberembedded therein and having in addition to the space occupied by saidend two non-communicating passages separated from each other by a wallof metal and through which the bight and the other end respectively ofsaid flexible member are passed whereby a double open loop may be formedin the flexible member, with the ends of each loop embedded in the seal.

2. A metal .seal formed of one piece of metal,and a flexible memberhaving one end embedded therein, said piece of metal having a passagethrough which the bight of said flexible member is passed, and a secondpassage entirely out of communication with the first and separatedtherefrom by a wall of metal and extending transversely of the first,said last named passage closely fitting the flexible member and havingits outer end Patented May 28,1912.

end in the direction of the strain on said flexible member.

3. A metal seal formed of one piece of metal, and a flexible memberhaving one end embedded therein, said piece of metal having a passagethrough which the bight of said flexible member is passed, and a secondpassage entirely out of communication with the first and separatedtherefrom by a wall of metal and extending transversely of the first,said last named passage closely coils within the passages of said seal.

fitting the flexible member and having its In witness whereof I havehereunto signed outer end of enlarged diameter adapted to my name in thepresence of two subscribing receive the knotted end of said flexiblememwitnesses. ber, whereby an abutment is provided for CAMILLO SISMONDI.said knotted end in the direction of the Witnesses:

strain on said flexible member, and metallic LoUIs ALLEN,

FELICE BAZETTA.

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' Washington, D. G.

